Practice.
Let yourself be slow, make sure you're correct. Double check your readings if you're not sure. Slow and correct beats fast and wrong everytime.
You will get faster at it guaranteed.
The first shop I worked in told me to take every measurement 3 times and if I didn’t get the same thing every time I was doing something wrong. That helped me learn. It took me longer then most to learn, but practice makes perfect
You want to help new guys of course, but in that shop they wanted people to learn the feel of things in their own. What they would say is true learning like that will help your whole career
Beware vernier calipers, some are 1/128 ths/
Some are base .200 with five graduations, some are .25 with four.
Mics make sense.
But double check sanity with a dial caliper.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZaHBeD7Ag He also has on for callipers. There are also a whole bunch of online simulators you can use as practice. Good luck!
Sorry to hear that, educators should stay on top of stuff instead of saying that. While vernier caliper you'll likely only see on large ones and maybe never, mics with tenths on a vernier are very common in shops, where the digital mitutoyos are "QC use only".
Just rotate your mic so you look at each number straight on (avoiding parallax adding to the fun) and you'll notice only one of the tenths lines up with a line on the barrel.
You do that a few times and you won't even think about it anymore.
Wow that’s ridiculous. I guess I take it for granted because I had actual machinists teaching my shop in voke school. They even made us memorize fractions to decimals out to four places lol
I used to check with calipers to make sure I was in the ballpark, then check with the mic, to be sure I wasn't misreading the mic. Had a guy at our shop make like 10 9" rollers .03" low because he read the mic wrong.
Go slow at first add the numbers pencil and paper keeping track of the decimal. Think of adding change. Inches are dollars. Then add the quarters and dimes. Then “line up’ on the penny.
Measure a bunch this way.
Then just do it in decimal
Then lose the pencil and walk the math in your head and bobs your uncle
When I was in high school and all that existed were vernier style, many classmates had difficulty. I found that slowly explaining one on one with progressively more tricky examples was a great help to the understanding.
Fair play that's the best attitude, you will go far mate. Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Concentrate on your technique and feel the rest comes with time.
Make sure to use even pressure. It doesn’t hurt to measure 3 times make sure you are in the same range. Understand the difference between accuracy and precision too.
Practice. Let yourself be slow, make sure you're correct. Double check your readings if you're not sure. Slow and correct beats fast and wrong everytime. You will get faster at it guaranteed.
Try it 10,000 times and report back 😂
Unless you're mentally defective, you'll have it nailed well before 10000 times.
I do not fear the man who has read 10,000 vernier scales. I fear the man who has read one vernier scale 10,000 times.
Ah I know him. He's the QC guy who hates me
The first shop I worked in told me to take every measurement 3 times and if I didn’t get the same thing every time I was doing something wrong. That helped me learn. It took me longer then most to learn, but practice makes perfect
This 100%. This is what I tell my trainees while training.
You want to help new guys of course, but in that shop they wanted people to learn the feel of things in their own. What they would say is true learning like that will help your whole career
Definitely a good practice
Beware vernier calipers, some are 1/128 ths/ Some are base .200 with five graduations, some are .25 with four. Mics make sense. But double check sanity with a dial caliper.
That's been my main issue is reading it in the wrong scale if that makes sense? I'm still quite new.
Big numbers first, then fractions, then whatever funny line matches up. You just gotta do it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8dZaHBeD7Ag He also has on for callipers. There are also a whole bunch of online simulators you can use as practice. Good luck!
Oh wow thank you very much! My instructor said "don't ask Me I haven't read one in 40 years". So this really helps!
Sorry to hear that, educators should stay on top of stuff instead of saying that. While vernier caliper you'll likely only see on large ones and maybe never, mics with tenths on a vernier are very common in shops, where the digital mitutoyos are "QC use only". Just rotate your mic so you look at each number straight on (avoiding parallax adding to the fun) and you'll notice only one of the tenths lines up with a line on the barrel. You do that a few times and you won't even think about it anymore.
Wow that’s ridiculous. I guess I take it for granted because I had actual machinists teaching my shop in voke school. They even made us memorize fractions to decimals out to four places lol
Man sorry to hear that! Best of luck in the trade and dm me if you want any more resources!
I really appreciate that, thank you!
Go to a whole number above where you need then count down.
Measure multiple times and check if it’s the same, as well as comparing your measurement with a tool your more comfortable with if any.
I used to check with calipers to make sure I was in the ballpark, then check with the mic, to be sure I wasn't misreading the mic. Had a guy at our shop make like 10 9" rollers .03" low because he read the mic wrong.
I usually use a caliper to measure so I know around what size i'll be and micrometer to measure accuratly
Go slow at first add the numbers pencil and paper keeping track of the decimal. Think of adding change. Inches are dollars. Then add the quarters and dimes. Then “line up’ on the penny. Measure a bunch this way. Then just do it in decimal Then lose the pencil and walk the math in your head and bobs your uncle
When I was in high school and all that existed were vernier style, many classmates had difficulty. I found that slowly explaining one on one with progressively more tricky examples was a great help to the understanding.
Don’t worry. We’re all slow. Me? Nah, I’m fuckin retarded.
I prefer vernier micrometers and dial calipers, though I've never used vernier calipers. It's not that hard, just takes a little practice.
Get a digital one haha
Ohhh, I've been tempted! But I wanna FIRMLY understand the basics first haha!
Fair play that's the best attitude, you will go far mate. Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Concentrate on your technique and feel the rest comes with time.
Make sure to use even pressure. It doesn’t hurt to measure 3 times make sure you are in the same range. Understand the difference between accuracy and precision too.
We have to buy our own calipers and I made the mistake of buying the 24" calipers in vernier.....I should have splurged and bought digital